Project Workshops:
Labour and bombing in Western Europe, 1940-1945
Beehive
Seminar Room,
Newcastle University, Friday 12 March 2010
The third workshop in the AHRC-funded programme ‘Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945', will be held at Newcastle University.
Industrial and urban areas were principal targets of air bombardment in the Second World War. This workshop will explore the experience of working-class communities under the bombs and the variety of responses bombing provoked.
Workshop speakers:
Richard Overy (Exeter)
Matt Perry (Newcastle)
Helen Jones (Goldsmiths College, London)
Ruth Easingwood (Newcastle)
Ralf Blank (Historisches Centrum, Hagen)
Workshop programme
Workshop poster
Friday 13 March 2009
War, Bombing, and Trauma:
World War 2 and Comparative Perspectives
The second project workshop was held at the University of Reading.
Intuitively, we all know that war, and especially extreme occurrences such as bombing, cause trauma. But how does trauma ‘work', in psychological terms? Why do its effects so often appear to be delayed, or even carried over into generations not directly affected by conflict? Does it affect children and adults differently?
Complex for individuals, the question of trauma is at least as much so for communities. What does it mean to talk about traumatised communities? To what extent is collective trauma ‘constructed' after the traumatising events themselves, by an accretion of memory, official and not?
The workshop examined these issues from a comparative perspective by bringing together a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist specialising in trauma, established authorities on Germany in World War II, and historians of other theatres of conflict.
Workshop Programme
Friday 7 March 2008
Discussions for the first workshop of the AHRC funded Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940 - 1945 research project were led by Richard Overy and brought together the following invited scholars:
Bernd Lemke (MGFA)
Jill Stephenson (University of Edinburgh)
Andrew Thorpe (University of Exeter)
Andrew Knapp and Lindsey Dodd (University of Reading)
Workshop programme
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